Topics in spatial stochastic processes. Lectures given at the C. I. M. E. summer school, Martina Franca, Italy, July 1--8, 2001 (Q1858298)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Capasso, Vincenzo; Micheletti, Alessandra}, Stochastic geometry of spatially structured birth and growth processes. Application to crystallization processes, 1-39 [Zbl 1031.60008] \textit{Merzbach, Ely}, An introduction to the general theory of set-indexed martingales, 41-84 [Zbl 1026.60066] \textit{Ivanoff, B. Gail}, Set-indexed processes: Distributions and weak convergence, 85-125 [Zbl 1027.60048] \textit{Dozzi, Marco}, Occupation density and sample path properties of \(N\)-parameter processes, 127-166 [Zbl 1042.60031] \textit{Dalang, Robert C.}, Level sets and excursions of the Brownian sheet, 167-208 [Zbl 1043.60041] \textit{Mountford, Thomas S.}, Critical reversible attractive nearest particle systems, 209-241 [Zbl 1028.60096]